[lug] Fwd: It's Legal to Unlock Your Cell Phone

Mon Aug 4 15:50:38 MDT 2014

The DMCA is definitely the root of the problem, but getting this exemption
for phones is an important, albeit small, victory.

/me misses the pre-DMCA days.

Here's to hoping the TPP doesn't get ratified.

Q

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Jeffrey S. Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Nice! It only took since January 2013 (when the Librarian of Congress, for
> the first time, refused to grant a triennial, DMCA waiver). :-)
>
> From my point of view the issue isn't phones, it's the DMCA, but YMMV.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Davide Del Vento <
> davide.del.vento at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Since phones are now computers and sizable number of them run Linux, I
>> believe you should know about this (if you don't already).
>>
>> Me, I still use a dumbphone bought in Europe more than a decade ago,
>> since to me the practices of this industry in the USA are unacceptable. But
>> maybe the tide is changing...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Davide
>>
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>> Date: Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 5:09 PM
>> Subject: It's Legal to Unlock Your Cell Phone
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>> It's Legal to Unlock Your Cell Phone
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>> Last week, Congress passed a bill legalizing cell phone unlocking — and
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